"She saw she had fallen into the hands……" — Rebecca West
"She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul."
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85 Quotes by Rebecca West
Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
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As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that…
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition…
— Dick Cheney
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the…
— Norman Podhoretz
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad…
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the…
— Ralph Ellison
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Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast…
— John Milton
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There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
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